Mexico bishops launch 'the migrant is a gift' campaign on social media

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Lofty words aside, we cannot help everyone. Our resources are limited. There are limits to what we can do.

Also this has nothing to with the rule of law. The US should enforce its immigration laws. We are a country of laws after all.

Even Mexico has immigration laws. Why is no one asking them to take care of illegals from Central America yet people are too quick to condemn the US for daring to insist that its laws be respected?
 
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He’s repeatedly indicated that ‘unjust’ laws can be ignored, should be ignored.
 
Isn’t there something in the Catechism of the Catholic Church about migrants respecting the laws of the land?

If they are unjust laws they should be amended but not ignored or broken. This Bishop is encouraging breaking the law.
 
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If I may interject but what if the Bishops of Mexico are simply using this as a campaign to remind us of the dignity of immigrants in the midst of this contentious discourse?
 
Right now, we have open jobs for immigrants. Our resources are in no immediate danger, unless you consider all of the crops that are rotting without anyone to harvest them.
 
There are several orchards and farms that actually bring legal migrants from Mexico, Central America and the Caribbean to pick their fruit. It is all done legally and the workers are given a fair wage and decent working conditions. The crops are picked, people earn a good living and feed their families and no laws are broken. Overall a win win situation.

You do not need to break the law to have the crops picked. Getting the work done and complying with the law are not mutually exclusive.
 
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When asked why you place Hispanics above wishful immigrants from other countries you said that you think special pretence should be made for Mexicans because half the USA use to be Mexico. And I see that attitude a lot being that I live in southern California. When people come here and call southern California “north Mexico” (yes, I have heard this personally) and despise this country but stay to take advantage of the better opportunity then yes they are saying that they feel they are owed something. They don’t have to outright say it. I do not see the Mexican government taking special care of their native population because they conquered land that use to be native territory. That is all. I wish more of my blood (being Mexicans) loved this country And appreciated the better opportunity here. But a lot do not. They do not want to be American, they want to bring Mexico here. Is it any wonder Americans look at them sideways? Heck, one of my Mexican immigrant co workers literally hit the American flag a couple weeks ago that we fly on our jobsite. If they despise this country and have resentment for this not being Mexico, why should this country give them any special priority for legal status?
 
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That’s a strange way to do so, especially if they encourage people to disrespect the sovereignty of the US.

But that is not the worst of it. What is worst is that the Bishop seems to be encourage people to enter illegally and then end up vulnerable to human trafficking and exploitation. It is these that violate the dignity of these migrants not US laws.
 
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Right now, we have open jobs for immigrants. Our resources are in no immediate danger, unless you consider all of the crops that are rotting without anyone to harvest them.
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That’s all I see, you keep rationalizing that breaking the law is OK
Because someone will hire them at a wage they are willing to accept

It’s a broken record.
We have a seasonal ag visa program to do it legally
It costs farmers more, but the benefit goes to the legal worker.

Crops are not rotting any more than usual because of pickers
 
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As President I’ll go pick crops with migrants. Then, I’ll address Mexico and deliver the ultimatum: Straighten Up or Join Up.
 
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If I may interject but what if the Bishops of Mexico are simply using this as a campaign to remind us of the dignity of immigrants in the midst of this contentious discourse?
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That’s not what I read into it.

It seems a very one sided message, that we should accept them (permanently)
It’s not saying people make mistakes and should be deported with dignity.

I’d say we do treat them with dignity, while they are here illegally they are still offered the full benefits of our laws, and the personal rights it entails.

Can you find the Bishops also chastising their flock for bad behavior? I’d welcome their call for help ($) nurturing their flock. That’s how subsidiarity works, isn’t it?
 
Yet, I thought these people told you they hated America?? Do they want citizenship or do they hate the USA? Which did they tell you? Or maybe you encountered some folks just trying to get on TV?
 
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Yet, I thought these people told you they hated America?? Do they want citizenship or do they hate the USA? Which did they tell you? Or maybe you encountered some folks just trying to get on TV?
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Intentional or not, they are sending a message of what’s in their heart.
Why shouldn’t we have high standards in whom we accept into the family?
 
Well, they are certainly getting their revenge by not making things better for their citizens so that they do not feel they have to come here. That is the Mexican governments fault right? The country that has only had one uncorrupt president in their entire history (Benito Juarez specifically, although the book I read about Mexican history was written before president Fox and the current president so I am not sure about them) But now it is the big bad usa that messed up Mexico? A country with a history of corrupt presidents? Mexico is rich but they cannot create a country that makes less of its people want to leave. No matter what the usa did The Mexican government would have made sure that Mexico would not be as well off for the common citizen as the USA is.
 
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The country that has only had one uncorrupt president in their entire history (Benito Juarez specifically,
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Unfortunately that’s the power of propaganda. Benito Juarez was one of the worst anti-Mexican presidents presidents for Mexico, and as a 33-degree-level member of the Masonic lodge hated and persecuted the Church. By the end of his presidency was known for favoritism and corruption. The government in Mexico has been socialist and atheistic, despite the vast majority of Mexicans being Catholic.
 
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Benito Juarez was one of the worst anti-Mexican presidents presidents for Mexico, and as a 33-degree-level member of the Masonic lodge hated and persecuted the Church.
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I knew it! The Illuminati are definitely behind Mexico!
 
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Unfortunately that’s the power of propaganda. Benito Juarez was one of the worst anti-Mexican presidents presidents for Mexico, and as a 33-degree-level member of the Masonic lodge hated and persecuted the Church. By the end of his presidency was known for favoritism and corruption. The government in Mexico has been socialist and atheistic, despite the vast majority of Mexicans being Catholic.
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Maybe it’s “not following the rule of law” that is a fundamental challenge for both Mexico and Mexicans?
Change the behavior, don’t export it
 
There’s no rationalization. Just simple facts. One way or another, these crops need harvested. If the migrant pool isn’t enough, they will need more laborers to step in. Loosening the immigration laws to allow a legal path to citizenship is the commonsense way to make this happen.
 
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